How to Disappear Completely. Community Dynamics and Deindividuation in Neo-Shamanic Urban Practices - Observatoire Caribéen du Climat Scolaire
Article Dans Une Revue Shaman - Journal of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism Année : 2015

How to Disappear Completely. Community Dynamics and Deindividuation in Neo-Shamanic Urban Practices

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This essay reflects on some community dynamics underlying neo-shamanic practices, starting from a review of field-notes taken by the author in the course of an ethnographic experience conducted in an urban context, in Colombia. The observation of the social and ritual procedures played by neo-shamanic therapists in post-colonial contexts reveals how indigenous performance has had to transform itself to survive the cultural pressure imposed by the hegemonic rationalism of modern mechanisms of knowledge. Urban shamanism, as an emerging social phenomena, appears as a hybrid creation, synchronizing forms and contents of the traditional shamanic practice with the post-modern needs of disciples (and clients) looking for their psycho-social balance in a climate of growing deindividuation. If ethno-biological knowledge were the core skill of traditional shamanism, neo-shamans prefer to strengthen their social position thanks to the tools offered by the same modernity (such as the ICT) and to confirm their social role of mediators and therapists through the development of a syncretic paraphernalia and a community of faithful aficionados.
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hal-01201764 , version 1 (06-01-2016)

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Maurizio Alì. How to Disappear Completely. Community Dynamics and Deindividuation in Neo-Shamanic Urban Practices. Shaman - Journal of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism, 2015, 23 (1-2), pp.17-52. ⟨hal-01201764⟩
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